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Issues of the 1960s = 2 Years, 37 Issues, 449 Articles-
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Issues of 1968 = 14 Issues, 181 Articles
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Issues of 1969 = 23 Issues, 268 Articles
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Issues of the 1970s = 10 Years, 207 Issues, 2,766 Articles-
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Issues of 1970 = 23 Issues, 286 Articles
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Issues of 1971 = 24 Issues, 286 Articles
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Issues of 1972 = 21 Issues, 262 Articles
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Issues of 1973 = 21 Issues, 275 Articles
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Issues of 1974 = 21 Issues, 279 Articles
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Issues of 1975 = 18 Issues, 265 Articles
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Issues of 1976 = 21 Issues, 272 Articles
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Issues of 1977 = 19 Issues, 258 Articles
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Issues of 1978 = 18 Issues, 262 Articles
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Issues of 1979 = 21 Issues, 321 Articles
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Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,127 Articles-
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Issues of 1980 = 20 Issues, 309 Articles
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Issues of 1981 = 18 Issues, 296 Articles
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Issues of 1982 = 21 Issues, 317 Articles
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Issues of 1983 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
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Issues of 1984 = 19 Issues, 298 Articles-
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Issues of Jan.-Mar. 1984 = 6 Issues, 94 Articles-
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January 19, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Fall of a Genius by Stephen Toulmin, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
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Return to 'The Golden Bowl' by Gore Vidal, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews- The Golden Bowl, Vol. I by Henry James
- The Golden Bowl, Vol. II by Henry James
- Syria: Human Rights Violations, pp. 12-13
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The Shaman and the Schlemiel by John Leonard, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review- The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud
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Utopian Fevers by John K. Fairbank, pp. 17-18 - 2 Reviews- The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. II by Roderick MacFarquhar
- One Billion by Jay Mathews and Linda Mathews
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Space Explorer by Mark Girouard, pp. 19-20 - 2 Reviews- John Soane: Architectural Monographs by John Summerson, David Watkin, and G. Tilman Mellinghoff, ...
- Sir John Soane: The Making of an Architect by Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey
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Poems with a Heroine by John Bayley, pp. 21-23 - 2 Reviews- Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
- Akhmatova's Petersburg by Sharon Leiter
- Casual Wear by James Merrill, p. 24
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Apocalypse Then by Harold Bloom, pp. 25-33 - 1 Review- The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. I by James H. Charlesworth
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Her Way by Sara Laschever, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review- A Private View by Irene Mayer Selznick
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Three-Part Inventions by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review- The World, The Text, and The Critic by Edward W. Said
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Class Act by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review- Fruits of Merchant Capital by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, ...
- Nuclear Temptations by Theodore Draper, pp. 42-49
- The Kennedy Brothers by Murray Kempton, p. 50
- Letters by William J. Broad, Nicholas Wade, and Paul Feyerabend, ..., pp. 51-56
- Cover Illustration by Gustave Dore
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February 2, 1984 Issue = 17 Articles-
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The Idea of Gardening by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- The Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
- In the Terror of Tehren by Richard Dowden, pp. 8-11
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Dostoevsky and His Double by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review- Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank
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The New Lear by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review- The Division of the Kingdoms by Gary Taylor and Michael Warren
- Ending on Paumanok by John Thompson, p. 18
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The Victorian Sex Wars by David Cannadine, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review- Education of the Senses by Peter Gay
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Trouble in Paradise by Luc Sante, p. 22 - 1 Review- The Galapagos Affair by John E. Treherne
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The Revenge of Aaron Burr by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 23-26 - 1 Review- Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr by Mary-Jo Kline, Joanne Wood Ryan, and Aaron Burr
- The Coming Struggle for Power in South Africa by Mark Uhlig, pp. 27-31
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Revolution and Revelation by Natalie Zemon Davis, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews- The Age of the Cathedrals by Georges Duby
- The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined by Georges Duby
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Sovietizing US Policy by George W. Ball, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review- Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace by Leon Wieseltier
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The Great American Variety Show by Christopher Lasch, pp. 36-39 - 1 Review- America's Quest for the Ideal Self by Peter Clecak
- Mrs. Velasquez and the Politicians by Murray Kempton, p. 40
- The Meaning of Mother Goose by Robert Darnton, pp. 41-46
- An Exchange on Deconstruction by Louis H. Mackey and John R. Searle, pp. 47-48
- Letters by George Jochnowitz, Bernard Knox, and John Bernard Myers, ..., pp. 49-52
- Cover Illustration by Dore
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February 16, 1984 Issue = 15 Articles-
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Life Studies by Helen Vendler, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Giroux
- Danger in Moscow by Seweryn Bialer, pp. 6-10
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The Defrocked Romantic by Gabriele Annan, pp. 11-13 - 2 Reviews- Heine's Jewish Comedy by Siegbert S. Prawer
- The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
- The Lost Mariner by Oliver Sacks, pp. 14-18
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Danton and Double-Entendre by Robert Darnton, pp. 19-24 - 1 Review- Danton (1983 Film) by Andrzej Wajda
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The Innocent by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review- The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer by Jackson J. Benson
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The Old New Wave by John E. Bowlt, pp. 27-29 - 3 Reviews- Kandinsky by Hans Konrad Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin
- Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-Garde by John Milner
- Russian Constructivism by Christina Lodder
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Where Modern Politics Began by Ronald Steel, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- The Warrior and the Priest by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
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The Young Satan by Sidney Monas, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review- Mikhail Bakunin by Aileen Kelly
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Touching Lubitsch by Rhoda Koenig, pp. 34-35 - 3 Reviews- Three Screen Comedies by Samson Raphaelson
- Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy by William Paul
- To Be or Not to Be (1983 Film) by Alan Johnson
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Where Does the Math Come From? by Ian Hacking, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review- The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge by Philip Kitcher
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Worst Wishes by Diane Johnson, pp. 38-39 - 2 Reviews- Wild Justice by Susan Jacoby
- Man Slaughter by Steven Englund
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The Deceiving Conscience by Julian Moynahan, p. 40 - 2 Reviews- Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
- The Summoning by Robert Towers
- Letters by Paul Morsey, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Robert L. Heilbroner, ..., pp. 41-44
- Cover Drawing by David Levine
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March 1, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Conrad by Daylight by Frederick Crews, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder
- A Letter to My Scientific Colleagues by Andrei Sakharov, p. 8
- Mother and Son by Anthony West, pp. 9-11
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Fable of the Poor by Noel Annan, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- The Idea of Poverty by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Let Us Calculate by A.J. Ayer, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review- Turing's Man by J. David Bolter
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The Future of Baby Doe by Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, pp. 17-22 - 1 Review- The Long Dying of Baby Andrew by Robert Stinson and Peggy Stinson
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Safety Last by Robert Goff, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review- Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock by Tom Dardis
- On Robert Lowell by Derek Walcott, pp. 25-30
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Neoperuasion by Amartya Sen, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- Reflections of a Neoconservative by Irving Kristol
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The Two George Groszes by John Willett, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review- George Grosz: An Autobiography by George Grosz
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Twilight of the Quads by David Piper, p. 36 - 1 Review- Unbuilt Oxford by Howard M. Colvin
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The Hidden History of Emancipation by Eric Foner, pp. 37-39 - 2 Reviews- Trial by Fire by Page Smith
- Freedom's Soldiers by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, ...
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Deeper into the Mire by James Chace, pp. 40-47 - 2 Reviews- Inevitable Revolutions by Walter LaFeber
- Central America: Anatomy of Conflict by Robert S. Leiken
- Massacre in Guatemala by Aryeh Neier, p. 48
- Letters by John Bayley, Gore Vidal, and Ted Leigh, pp. 49-52
- Cover illustration by Bewick
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March 15, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Quanta by Roger Shattuck, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
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Surviving in the Ruins by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 6-7 - 5 Reviews- Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones
- The Selected Essays of Cyril Connolly by Peter Quennell and Cyril Connolly
- Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly
- The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly
- The Rock Pool by Cyril Connolly
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Marriage a la Mode by Judith Shapiro and Liang Heng, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review- The White-Boned Demon by Ross Terrill
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Closet Modern by Bernard Knox, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review- A.E. Housman by Norman Page
- The Costs of Reaganism by Emma Rothschild, pp. 14-16
- Beliefs of a Master by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 17-22
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Quiz Kids by Martin Gardner, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review- The Great Mental Calculators by Steven B. Smith
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Aimez-Vous Brecht by James Fenton, pp. 25-27 - 2 Reviews- Brecht in Context by John Willett
- Brecht: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
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Closely Watched Trains by Leo Marx, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review- Metropolitan Corridor by John R. Stilgoe
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All the King's Men by Daniel Albright, pp. 30-33 - 1 Review- The Land and Literature of England by Robert M. Adams
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Israel in Embryo by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 34-37 - 1 Review- The High Walls of Jerusalem by Ronald Sanders
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Death in the Family by Robert Craft, p. 38 - 1 Review- A Tomb for Anatole by Stephane Mallarme
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Interpreting the Interpreter by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 39-45 - 1 Review- Local Knowledge by Clifford Geertz
- An Exchange on Dominoes by MacGregor Knox, Richard Edes Harrison, and Theodore Draper, ..., pp. 46-47
- Letters by Bertell Ollman, Andrzej Walicki, and Vernon Young, ..., pp. 48-52
- Cover Drawing by David Levine
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March 29, 1984 Issue = 14 Articles-
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Triumph of a Naturalist by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review- A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
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History Lessons by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review- The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman
- American Roulette by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 11-14
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A Nymph of the New by Alfred Kazin, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review- Herself Defined by Barbara Guest
- The SoHoiad by Junius Secundus, pp. 17-19
- In Love with the Adverb by Gore Vidal, p. 20
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Slithering over the Brink by James Joll, pp. 21-22 - 2 Reviews- Russia and the Origins of the First World War by D.C.B. Lieven
- France and the Origins of the First World War by John F.V. Keiger
- Oscar Wilde at Oxford by Richard Ellmann, pp. 23-28
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The Power of the Doctors by Arnold S. Relman, pp. 29-32 - 1 Review- The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
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The Bloom Is Off by Eleanor Perenyi, pp. 33-37 - 3 Reviews- Vita by Victoria Glendinning
- Harold Nicolson: A Biography, Vol. II: 1930-1968 by James Lees-Milne
- Harold Nicolson: A Biography, Vol. I: 1886-1929 by James Lees-Milne
- Nabokov's Passion by Edmund White, pp. 38-41
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The New Eighteenth Century by Lawrence Stone, pp. 42-47 - 14 Reviews- In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714-60 by Linda Colley
- The Birth of a Consumer Society by John H. Plumb, Neil McKendrick, and John Brewer
- Industrialization Before Industrialization by Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick, and Jurgen Schlumbohm, ...
- Augustan England by Geoffrey Holmes
- Bath, 1680-1850: A Social History by R.S Neale
- The Impact of English Towns, 1700-1800 by P.J. Corfield
- The Georgian Triumph 1700-1830 by Michael Reed
- The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry by John Rule
- Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740 by Lloyd Bonfield
- Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England by John A. Phillips
- Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Paul-Gabriel Bouce
- Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode by Robert L.S. Cowley
- Strict Settlement by Barbara English and John Saville
- English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter
- Letters by Jonathan Schell, George W. Ball, and Robert Giroux, ..., pp. 48-52
- Cover illustration by Hogarth
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Issues of Apr.-Jun. 1984 = 5 Issues, 71 Articles-
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April 12, 1984 Issue = 14 Articles-
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A Case of Hysteria by Charles Rycroft, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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The Solace of Intrigue by V.S. Pritchett, p. 7 - 2 Reviews- Good Behavior by Molly Keane
- Time After Time by Molly Keane
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The Reagan Variety Show by James Fallows, pp. 8-12 - 3 Reviews- The Supply-Side Revolution by Paul Craig Roberts
- Presidential Economics by Herbert Stein
- The Barbaric Counter-Revolution by W.W. Rostow
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The Joy and Malice of It All by Robert M. Adams, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review- The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne, Charles S. Singleton, and Giovanni Boccaccio, ...
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I'm the Greatest! by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 15-16 - 1 Review- Mayor: An Autobiography by Edward I. Koch and William Rauch
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The New Sound of Liszt by Charles Rosen, pp. 17-20 - 1 Review- Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker
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A Simple Problem Science Can't Solve by R.C. Lewontin, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- Women in Science by Vivian Gornick
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Darn that Darning by Diane Johnson, pp. 23-24 - 4 Reviews- Confidence Men and Painted Women by Karen Halttunen
- The Light of the Home by Harvey Green
- Private Woman, Public Stage by Mary Kelley
- Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose
- The Sakharovs in Gorky by Natalya Viktorovna Hesse and Vladimir Tolz, pp. 25-28
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The Master Linguist by Joseph Frank, pp. 29-32 - 1 Review- Dialogues by Roman Jakobson and Krystyna Pomorska
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Unheard Melodies by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- The Odes of John Keats by Helen Vendler
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The Schools Flunk Out by Andrew Hacker, pp. 35-39 - 7 Reviews- A Place Called School by John I. Goodlad
- Horace's Compromise by Theodore R. Sizer
- High School by Ernest L. Boyer
- High School Achievement by James S. Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, and Sally Kilgore, ...
- A Nation at Risk
- Action for Excellence
- Making the Grade by Paul Peterson
- Letters by Elisabeth Labrousse, Alex Kurczaba, and Jozef Kasparek, ..., pp. 40-44
- Cover Drawing by David Levine
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April 26, 1984 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Real Me by Harold Bloom, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig
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The Surprise of Solidarity by Neal Ascherson, pp. 7-11 - 2 Reviews- A Warsaw Diary, 1978-1981 by Kazimierz Brandys
- The First Polka by Horst Bienek
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Not So Close to Colette by Gabriele Annan, pp. 12-15 - 2 Reviews- Colette by Joanna Richardson
- The Collected Stories of Colette by Robert Phelps and Colette
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Force de Frappe by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review- Charles de Gaulle: A Biography by Don Cook
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The King of Correspondence by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review- Horace Walpole's Correspondence by W.S. Lewis, A Dayle Wallace, and Horace Walpole
- Illegitimacy by Patricia Storace, p. 21
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The Love Songs of Alfred J. Hitchcock by Michael Wood, pp. 22-32 - 2 Reviews- The Dark Side of Genius by Donald Spoto
- Hitchcock by Bruno Villien
- The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera, pp. 33-37
- The Rites of Martha Graham by Howard Moss, pp. 38-39
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Battle over Berlioz by Charles Rosen, pp. 40-42 - 1 Review- Musical Language of Berlioz by Julian Rushton
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Welcome to Munciekin Land by Gerald Weales, pp. 43-44 - 1 Review- All Faithful People by Theodore Caplow, Howard M. Bahr, and Bruce A. Chadwick, ...
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Beer, Onions, and Damnation by D.J. Enright, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review- The Wandering Jew by Stefan Heym
- Reagan's Star Wars, pp. 47-51
- Letters by Mark N. Kramer, George W. Ball, and Howard Stern, ..., pp. 52-56
- Cover cartoons by Jacques Sadoul
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May 10, 1984 Issue = 15 Articles-
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The Game of Lights by Janet Malcolm, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Horacescope by D.S. Carne-Ross, pp. 7-8 - 2 Reviews- The Complete Works of Horace by Casper J. Kraemer and Horace
- The Essential Horace by Burton Raffel and Horace
- 'One for the Road' by Harold Pinter, pp. 9-11
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The Invisible Man by Luc Sante, pp. 12-15 - 3 Reviews- The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
- The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957 by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
- The Burial of Cambodia by William Shawcross, pp. 16-19
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Excelsior! by Keith Thomas, pp. 20-22 - 1 Review- The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
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An American Education by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review- Democracy by Joan Didion
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Pie in the Sky by Hal Draper, pp. 25-30 - 1 Review- The Heyday of American Communism by Harvey Klehr
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Forster's Shadow by Stephen Spender, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Vol I: 1879-1920 by Mary Lago, P.N. Furbank, and E.M. Forster
- The Outcasts of Iran by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 33-35
- The Bells of Orvieto by Pier Paolo Pasolini, p. 36
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The Keenest Critic by M.H. Abrams, pp. 37-40 - 1 Review- Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich
- Why TVA Failed by Jane Jacobs, pp. 41-46
- An Exchange on Mother Goose by Irving B. Harrison, Jack Zipes, and Robert Darnton, ..., p. 47
- Letters by Edward I. Koch, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Robert M. Adams, ..., pp. 48-52
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May 31, 1984 Issue = 14 Articles-
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Twice-Born by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review- Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein
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The Vicar's Revenge by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 6-14 - 1 Review- Caveat by Alexander M. Haig
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Sex & Superstition by Peter Singer, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review- Sex and Destiny by Germaine Greer
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Fascinatin' Modulation by Bayan Northcott, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review- The Music of Elliott Carter by David Schiff and Elliott Carter
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The Egyptian Murder Case by Bernard Lewis, pp. 21-24 - 1 Review- Autumn of Fury by Mohammed Heikal
- Saving the Western Alliance by Helmut Schmidt, pp. 25-27
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Lermontov's Demon by Henry Gifford, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews- Mikhail Lermontov: Major Poetical Works by Anatoly Liberman and Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrative Poems by Aleksandr S. Pushkin and Mikhail Y. Lermontov, ...
- Real Guys by Howard Moss, pp. 31-32
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Heaven Can't Wait by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 33-34 - 2 Reviews- The Puritan Conversion Narrative by Patricia Caldwell
- The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
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Good Pix from Stix by Robert Towers, pp. 35-36 - 3 Reviews- Places in the World a Woman Could Walk by Janet Kauffman
- Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
- Edisto by Padgett Powell
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How Guilty Were the Germans? by Istvan Deak, pp. 37-41 - 11 Reviews- The Nazi Voter by Thomas Childers
- The Germans by Gordon A. Craig
- Modern Germany by V.R. Berghahn
- Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
- The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920-1945 by Johnpeter Horst Grill
- Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish Question by Sarah A. Gordon
- The Nazi Party by Michael H. Kater
- The Rise of Hitler by Simon Taylor
- The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen
- Beating the Fascists? by Eve Rosenhaft
- The Black Corps by Robert Lewis Koehl
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Scrabbling in the 'Wake' by Robert M. Adams, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review- Shakespeare and Joyce by Vincent John Cheng
- 'Nuclear Temptations' by Albert Wohlstetter and Theodore Draper, pp. 44-49
- Letters by Ross Terrill, Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng, and John Willett, ..., pp. 50-56
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June 28, 1984 Issue = 13 Articles- The Debt Won't Be Paid by Harold Lever, pp. 3-4
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Art, Life, and T.S. Eliot by Irvin Ehrenpreis, pp. 5-8 - 1 Review- T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style by Ronald Bush
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Israel: A Partial Indictment by Avishai Margalit, pp. 9-13 - 1 Review- The Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky
- On New Music by Pierre Boulez, p. 14
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Richesse d'embarras by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review- D.V. by Diana Vreeland, George Plimpton, and Christopher Hemphill, ...
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Winner Take Less by Ian Hacking, pp. 17-20 - 1 Review- The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
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Odor and Ardor by Michael Wood, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- Infante's Inferno by G. Cabrera Infante
- The Bull on the Mountain by Oliver Sacks, pp. 23-29
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Required Reading by Robert Craft, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- Required Writing by Philip Larkin
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Working-Class Casanova by Robert Darnton, pp. 32-37 - 1 Review- Will and Circumstance by Norman Hampson
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Your Host of Hosts by Robert G. Kaiser, pp. 38-40 - 4 Reviews- Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism by Robert Dallek
- Reagan Inside Out by Bob Slosser
- Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation by Ronald Reagan
- The Russians and Reagan by Strobe Talbott
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Shrinking Michelangelo by Leo Steinberg, pp. 41-44 - 1 Review- Michelangelo by Robert S. Liebert
- Letters by Maurice Cranston, Peter Reddaway, and Dominic Lieven, ..., pp. 45-48
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Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1984 = 3 Issues, 50 Articles-
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July 19, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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A Hard Case by Murray Kempton, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review- Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo by Mario Cuomo
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The Central Man by Harold Bloom, pp. 5-8 - 1 Review- Lincoln by Gore Vidal
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In Hell by Neal Ascherson, pp. 9-11 - 2 Reviews- An Interrupted Life by Etty Hillesum and J.G. Gaarlandt
- The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm by Gunther Schwarberg
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The End of the Tether by Julian Symons, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- Intimate Memoirs by Georges Simenon
- The Novel and Europe by Milan Kundera, pp. 15-18
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Heroines by Aileen Kelly, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review- The Princess of Siberia by Christine Sutherland
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The Catch in the Late Picasso by John Richardson, pp. 21-27 - 1 Review- Picasso: The Last Years, 1963-1973 by Gert Schiff
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Winter's Tales by Robert M. Adams, p. 28 - 1 Review- Him With His Foot in His Mouth by Saul Bellow
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Mastering the Signs by J.H. Elliott, pp. 29-31 - 2 Reviews- The Conquest of America by Tzvetan Todorov
- Religion and Empire by Geoffrey W. Conrad and Arthur A. Demarest
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The Return of the Native by Denis Donoghue, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review- An American Procession by Alfred Kazin
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Portrait of a Genius as a Young Man by Noel Annan, pp. 35-38 - 4 Reviews- John Maynard Keynes by John Kenneth Galbraith, Roy Jenkins, and Richard Wainwright, ...
- John Maynard Keynes, Vol. I by Robert Skidelsky
- John Maynard Keynes by Charles H. Hession
- Lydia Lopokova by Milo Keynes
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Notes of a Friend and Brother by Millicent Bell, pp. 39-40 - 1 Review- The Letters of Henry James, Vol. IV: 1895-1916 by Leon Edel and Henry James
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The Wealth of Nations by Stephen A. Marglin, pp. 41-43 - 1 Review- Economic Development by Ian M.D. Little
- Balanchine after Balanchine by Howard Moss, p. 44
- Letters by William S. Burroughs, Ruth F. Boorstin, and Keith Thomas, ..., pp. 45-48
- Cover Drawing by David Levine
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August 16, 1984 Issue = 18 Articles-
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Somebody Out There by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review- Something Out There by Nadine Gordimer
- A Commencement Address by Joseph Brodsky, pp. 7-8
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Snapshots of the Photographer by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 9-11 - 1 Review- Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
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Who Cares? by Roger Rosenblatt, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review- The Quality of Mercy by William Shawcross
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Comic, Sad, Indefinite by Rosemary Dinnage, p. 15 - 1 Review- A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym, Hazel Holt, and Hilary Pym
- Elsewhere by Derek Walcott, p. 16
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The Secret of Danny Santiago by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 17-26 - 1 Review- Famous All Over Town by Danny Santiago
- Lost Years by Irina Ratushinskaya, pp. 27-29
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Between You and Your Genes by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review- Not in Our Genes by Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, ...
- The Election and After by Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Walter Dean Burnham, and Kevin Phillips, ..., pp. 33-38
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'A Roaring Positive Fellow' by V.S. Pritchett, p. 39 - 1 Review- The Letters of Anthony Trollope by N. John Hall and Anthony Trollope
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Not Swann's Way by Roger Shattuck, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review- Swann in Love (1984 Film) by Volker Schlondorff
- A Dangerous Occupation by Scott MacLeod, pp. 44-46
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Haunted Places by Michael Wood, pp. 47-48 - 2 Reviews- A Month in the Country by James L. Carr
- Waterland by Graham Swift
- Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle' by Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Michael Walzer, and Avishai Margalit, ..., pp. 49-50
- Letters by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, MacGregor Knox, and Theodore Draper, ..., p. 51
- Poem by Harry Mathews, pp. 52-56
- Cover Drawing by David Levine
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September 27, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Holding Up the Empire by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-6 - 2 Reviews- Alba by William S. Maltby
- Richelieu and Olivares by J.H. Elliott
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Lives of the Poets by Robert Craft, pp. 7-10 - 1 Review- Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan
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A Parable of Automation by James Fallows, pp. 11-16 - 3 Reviews- Forces of Production by David F. Noble
- Computerized Manufacturing Automation
- Human Resource Implications of Robotics by H. Allan Hunt and Timothy L. Hunt
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Rilke in Life and Death by Gabriele Annan, pp. 17-20 - 3 Reviews- Rilke: A Life by Wolfgang Leppmann
- The Sacred Threshold by J.F. Hendry
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Visions of the Grand Prize by Bernard Knox, pp. 21-28 - 3 Reviews- Paris-Rome-Athens
- Grand Prix de Rome by Philippe Grunchec
- Le Grand Prix de Peinture by Philippe Grunchec
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Losing the Economic Race by Lester C. Thurow, pp. 29-31 - 2 Reviews- Can America Compete? by Robert Z. Lawrence
- The DRI Report on US Manufacturing Industries by Otto Eckstein, Christopher Caton, and Roger Brinner, ...
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The Darkest Deception by Martin Gilbert, pp. 32-38 - 1 Review- The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 by Lucjan Dobroszycki
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Hole in the World by Jerome Bruner, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review- A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
- On Being 'Inadmissible' by George Woodcock, pp. 42-43
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Return to the Native by Peter Nabokov, pp. 44-45 - 1 Review- Indian Country by Peter Matthiessen
- Jordan by Bernard Avishai, pp. 46-48
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Home from Home by D.J. Enright, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review- The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
- Mitterand vs. France by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 51-58
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Our Mission in China by Jonathan Spence, pp. 59-62 - 3 Reviews- The Making of a Special Relationship by Michael H. Hunt
- The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911-1915 by James Reed
- The Gospel of Gentility by Jane Hunter
- An Exchange on Cambodia by Nayan Chanda, Ben Kiernan, and William Shawcross, ..., pp. 63-64
- Letters by Rudolf Flesch, John Van Doren, and George Burnet, ..., pp. 65-72
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Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1984 = 5 Issues, 83 Articles-
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October 11, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Inside the Revolution by Robert S. Leiken, pp. 3-9 - 1 Review- Family Portrait with Fidel by Carlos Franqui
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Discovery by Joan Didion, pp. 10-12 - 2 Reviews- Finding the Center by V.S. Naipaul
- Getting to Know the General by Graham Greene
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The Path of a Prophet by Aileen Kelly, pp. 13-17 - 1 Review- Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammell
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Politics Without Party by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review- Presidents Above Party by Ralph L. Ketcham
- Popular Demand by James Merrill, p. 21
- A Hard Act to Follow by Murray Kempton, p. 22
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Inescapable Poe by Harold Bloom, pp. 23-36 - 2 Reviews- Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales by Patrick F. Quinn and Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews by Gary Richard Thompson and Edgar Allan Poe
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International Episodes by Gabriele Annan, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review- Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
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Meeting the Lord in the Air by J.M. Cameron, pp. 39-40 - 2 Reviews- The Naked Public Square by Richard John Neuhaus
- Religion in the Secular City by Harvey Cox
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Super Trouper by John Russell, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review- Duse: A Biography by William Weaver
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Monet's Turf by Robert L. Herbert, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review- Monet by Andrew Forge and Robert Gordon
- The Waste Land Without Pound by Louis Auchincloss, p. 46
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Gorgeous George by Marcus Cunliffe, pp. 47-50 - 2 Reviews- George Washington: A Biography by John R. Alden
- Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment by Garry Wills
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The Grab for Greece by C.M. Woodhouse, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review- The Prelude to the Truman Doctrine by G.M. Alexander
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Seeing Through the Brain by Israel Rosenfield, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review- Vision by David Marr
- Letters by Paul Jarrico, Arnold Dolin, and John Gregory Dunne, ..., pp. 56-60
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October 25, 1984 Issue = 16 Articles-
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Peaceful Coexistence by Norman A. Stillman, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review- The Jews of Islam by Bernard Lewis
- Among the Republicans by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 5-17
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His Angry Way by V.S. Pritchett, p. 18 - 1 Review- Mr Noon by D.H. Lawrence and Lindeth Vasey
- Riding the Wave of the Future by Alison Lurie, pp. 19-22
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Living in the Night by Neal Ascherson, p. 23 - 1 Review- Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach
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Life at the Top by Noel Annan, pp. 24-29 - 2 Reviews- King George V by Kenneth Rose
- Matriarch by Anne Edwards
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The Big Word in 'Ulysses' by Richard Ellmann, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, and Wolfhard Steppe, ...
- Religious Belief and Public Morality by Mario M. Cuomo, pp. 32-36
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Animated Paradox by Robert M. Adams, pp. 37-39 - 2 Reviews- Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age, Vol. One by Irvin Ehrenpreis
- Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age, Vol. Three by Irvin Ehrenpreis
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Making It New by Seamus Heaney, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review- Children in Exile by James Fenton
- Footnote to a Desperate Letter by John Hollander, p. 42
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Is Science Beautiful? by David Joravsky, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review- Darwin's Plots by Gillian Beer
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Hard Times by Jonathan Raban, pp. 46-48 - 2 Reviews- English Journey by J.B. Priestley
- English Journey by Beryl Bainbridge
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What Nathalie Knew by Frank Kermode, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review- Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute
- Letters by David Jackson, Robert Craft, Gershon Silins, and John Clarke, ..., pp. 51-56
- Cover Photograph by Randy Taylor
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November 22, 1984 Issue = 17 Articles- Back Yards by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 3-8
- A Little History Lesson by Milan Kundera, p. 9
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General Keynes by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 10-14 - 1 Review- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes by Elizabeth Johnson, Donald Moggridge, and John Maynard Keynes, ...
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Honest Floozies by James Wolcott, pp. 15-18 - 3 Reviews- Symphony for the Devil by Philip Norman
- Dance with the Devil by Stanley Booth
- Dylan by Jonathan Cott
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Mr. America by Harold Bloom, pp. 19-24 - 1 Review- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter by John J. McAleer
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A Long-Suppressed Episode by Andre Chastel, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review- The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg
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Kitsch and the Novel by John Bayley, pp. 28-32 - 5 Reviews- Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
- It's Me, Eddie by Edward Limonov
- The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov
- The Burn by Vassily Aksyonov
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Turning Toward War by James Joll, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review- The Fateful Alliance by George F. Kennan
- "War of Liberation" by Mustafa Tlas, pp. 36-39
- Third Station of the Cross by April Bernard, p. 40
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The Long March by Keith Thomas, pp. 41-44 - 1 Review- The Perspective of the World, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel
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Prisoners & Pornographers by D.J. Enright, pp. 45-46 - 2 Reviews- Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
- Swallow by D.M. Thomas
- Part of a Letter, to Young Codignola by Pier Paolo Pasolini, p. 47
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Field Marshal Stalin by David Holloway, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews- The Road to Stalingrad by John Erickson
- The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
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Design for Living by Charles Taylor, pp. 51-55 - 1 Review- The Thread of Life by Richard Wollheim
- Letters by Louis Dupre, Frederick Crossen, and Ralph McInerny, ..., pp. 56-60
- Cover illustration by Posada
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December 6, 1984 Issue = 14 Articles-
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The Evolution of Margaret Mead by Stephen Toulmin, pp. 3-9 - 2 Reviews- Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard
- With a Daughter's Eye by Mary Catherine Bateson
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A Traveling Man by Michael Wood, pp. 10-12 - 1 Review- D.W. Griffith: An American Life by Richard Schickel
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Difficult Daughter by Oliver Taplin, pp. 13-16 - 1 Review- Antigones by George Steiner
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Embarrassing Colony by Richard M. Morse, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review- Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment by Raymond Carr
- On Art and Money by Robert Hughes, pp. 20-27
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Panic in the South by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 28-30 - 1 Review- The Crucible of Race by Joel Williamson
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Sons and Lovers by Brigid Brophy, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West
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Light and Lively by Robert Towers, pp. 33-34 - 2 Reviews- Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
- Lives of the Poets by E.L. Doctorow
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Parfit Gentil Knights by R.C. Smail, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review- Chivalry by Maurice Keen
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King in a Corner by Alistair Horne, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review- Western Sahara by Tony Hodges
- Israel by Bernard Avishai, pp. 40-47
- 'I Am Prepared for Anything' by Father Jerzy Popieluszko, p. 48
- American Communism by Elmer A. Benson, Robert Claiborne, and Hal Draper, ..., pp. 49-50
- Letters by Samuel Farber, Ellen Handler Spitz, and Leo Steinberg, ..., pp. 51-56
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December 20, 1984 Issue = 20 Articles-
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Cheever, or The Ambiguities by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 3-8 - 1 Review- Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
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Giants in Dwarfs' Jackets by D.S. Carne-Ross, pp. 9-12 - 1 Review- Paradiso by Allen Mandelbaum and Dante Alighieri
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The Patient Is Always Right by Janet Malcolm, pp. 13-18 - 2 Reviews- Analysis of Transference, Vol. I by Merton M. Gill
- Analysis of Transference, Vol. II by Merton M. Gill and Irwin Z. Hoffman
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Inscrutable Genius by Gabriele Annan, pp. 19-24 - 1 Review- Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling
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The Voyage of Watteau by Francis Haskell, pp. 25-30 - 3 Reviews- Watteau: 1684-1721 by Margaret M. Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg, and Nicole Parmantier, ...
- Antoine Watteau by Donald Posner
- Le Serment du Jeu de Paume de Jacques-Louis David by Philippe Bordes
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The Ideal Husband by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review- T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Part II by Derek Walcott, p. 34
- Sweet Evening Breeze by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 35-42
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Betwixt, Bothered & Bewildered by Mary Douglas, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review- Structuralist Interpretation of Biblical Myth by Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock
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The Godfather's Grandfather by Robert M. Adams, pp. 46-48 - 3 Reviews- The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
- Mastro-Don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga
- The She-Wolf, and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga
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A Christmas Roundup by Robert Craft, pp. 49-53 - 1 Review- Principles of the Harpsichord by Monsieur de Saint Lambert by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Saint Lambert
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On the Frontier by Ian Hacking, pp. 54-57 - 1 Review- Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation by Donald Davidson
- An Interview with Ricardo by Howard Moss, p. 58
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Grand Chutzpah by Simon Schama, pp. 59-60 - 2 Reviews- The English Rothschilds by Richard W. Davis
- Dear Lord Rothschild by Miriam Rothschild
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The Alchemist Dramatist by Harry Levin, pp. 61-62 - 1 Review- Ben Jonson, Dramatist by Anne Barton
- Senegal by Kenneth Koch, p. 63
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No Entrance by David Cannadine, pp. 64-66 - 1 Review- An Open Elite? England 1540-1880 by Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone
- A Christmas Quiz, p. 67
- An Exchange on Automation by James Fallows and B. Kuttner, p. 68
- Letters by Francis T. Ventre, Lester Thurow, and George P. Savidis, ..., pp. 68-72
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Issues of 1985 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
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Issues of 1986 = 21 Issues, 313 Articles
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Issues of 1987 = 21 Issues, 314 Articles
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Issues of 1988 = 21 Issues, 337 Articles
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Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles-
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Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
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Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
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Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
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Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
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Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
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Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
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Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
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Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
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Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
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Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles-
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Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
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Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
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Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
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Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
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Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
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Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles-
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Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles